Միլան Կունդերա

[StrangeLittleGirl]

Քինդլս էի փորփրում, առանձնացրած մեջբերումներ գտա: Էս մեկը «Անմահությունից».

But because people in the West are not threatened by concentration camps and are free to say and write what they want, the more the fight for human rights gains in popularity, the more it loses any concrete content, becoming a kind of a universal stance of everyone toward everything, a kind of energy that turns all human desires into rights.

ու մեկ էլ.

Let us imagine that the dial of Ruben's life is placed on some great medieval clock, like the one in Old Town Square in Prague, which I passed regularly for some twenty years. The clock strikes the hour and a little window above the dial opens: a marinette, a little girl of seven, comes out and asks Rubens what the time is. And then, many years later, when that same slow hand comes around to the next number, bells begin to sound, the window opens once again, and a marionette, this time a young woman, emerges and tells him, "When you were young..."